Silver Cable Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010263
MRDS ID D003854
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Cable Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.62157, 47.47987 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 4 1/2 MI N OF TAFT, MONT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saltese(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 020N 032W 24 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE HEAD OF BRIMSTONE CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Bleaching Is Common Within A Belt Approximately 1 Mi Wide Along The North Side Of The Osburn Fault Zone. It Has Been Used As A Guide To Ore Deposits.

Analytical data

Result ORE SAMPLE IS SAID TO ASSAY 11 % ZN AND 24 % PB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Revett Quartzite (White Quartzite);Burke Formation (Impure Quartzites And Argillites)
    Rock description Revett Quartzite (White Quartzite);Burke Formation (Impure Quartzites And Argillites)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.62157, 47.47987

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description A Major Structural Grain Trends Nw And Is Made Of Subparallel Faults And Folds. Major Fault Is The Osburn. This Fault Seems To Demarcate A Change In Folding Form With Folds To The North Showing Signs Of More Intense Structural Deformation Than Those To The South.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Scale Generally Ne Trending, Steeply Dipping Faults Are Present

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45 E
    Dip 35 SE
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Osburn Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST BEDS STRIKE APPROX. E AND DIP FROM 45 DEG S TO 50 DEG N, WITH THE NORTHERLY DIPPING BEDS BEING OVERTURNED. REVETT & BURKE FORMATIONS SEPARATED BY A FAULT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Packer Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1066.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE ON THREE LEVELS AS OF 1956 ONLY THE LOWER LEVEL WAS COMPLETELY ACCESSIBLE; THE UPPER LEVEL WAS PARTLY ACCESSIBLE. ACCORDING TO 1914 PUBLICATION, THE BEST SHOWING OF ORE WAS IN THE HIGHEST TUNNEL; THE LOWEST LEVEL DID NOT SHOW ANY ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN REPLACES WALL ROCK IN PART, AS WELL AS FILLING FRACTURES ALONG CAVITIES. ORIENTATION OF VEIN IS DIFFERENT THAN THE GENERAL NW ORIENTATION OF VEINS WITHIN THE MINING AREA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references